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Measuring Polymer Molecules

JAN 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066364

Bruno H. Zimm

The average molecular size of a common high polymer (the raw material from which plastics and rubber are made) affects most of its properties but the molecules are too large to be measured by x‐ray scattering in the ordinary way.

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